Description
Helicobacter pylori is a spiral-shaped bacterium that can be found in the human stomach and duodenum.
Helicobacter pylori is regarded as a contributing factor of chronic B-gastritis, duodenal ulcers and as an etiologic stimulus of gastric MALT-lymphoma. Furthermore, it is suspected of being involved in the pathogenesis of stomach carcinoma. The epidemiology of infection by Helicobacter pylori has been characterised in western industrial nations by a linear increase with age.
